If lynching is emblematic of what is worst about America, their fight may stand for what is best: the commitment to justice and fairness and the conviction that one individual’s sense of right can suffice to defy the gravest of wrongs. This landmark book follows the trajectory of both forces over American history and makes lynching’s legacy belong to us all.
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Background Information
Lynching was the delivery of capital punishment by mob justice to people suspected but not convicted or perhaps even charged with crimes, primarily in the Deep South. W.E.B. DuBois, in contrast to Booker T. Washington, believed that blacks in America needed to be assertive and if necessary confrontational in staking out their rights.